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Nutrient Timing and You Everyone knows that fitness and balanced nutrition go hand-in-hand. But how do they relate? What difference does it make how many calories you consume and when you consume them? The answer lies in nutrient timing, a structured plan of nutritional consumption that serves to provide numerous health advantages. Athletes and competitorsRead more

Untying the Knots There is a good chance that at some point you have either thought to yourself or heard someone else say their body feels “all tied up in knots.” That phrase is an accurate analogy for the pain many people experience from sensitive spots in their muscles. They make us feel like ourRead more

There are more components to building a life of fitness than you might realize. Obviously, in order to do so, you must be physically able to exercise regularly and take care of yourself. You must have the willpower to avoid certain food cravings or periods of laziness that take you further from your fitness goals.Read more

Is Your Soreness Normal? Have you ever woken up in the morning after a rigorous workout and been surprised to find that you are not struggling with muscle soreness? If so, you may have thought you were out of the woods—until the pain developed slowly during the day and carried into severe soreness later. IfRead more

The Map to Your Success The keys to living a healthy and fit life seem pretty cut-and-dried: eat the right foods, exercise regularly, and the results will show themselves. But there is so much more to wellness than just those basics. Each person has what WHF calls a global wellness map. We think of itRead more

The Better Type of Stress It seems like everyone goes through their daily lives, looking for ways to eliminate as much stress as possible. People often use exercise and trips to the gym to relieve that stress. But did you know that not all stress has negative effects and that exercising can actually create positiveRead more

Every gym faces a similar scenario nearly every day: a newcomer enters and says they are interested in starting to work out at that gym. The trainers and clients don’t know each other at all, nor do they know each other’s goals for the working relationship. So to solve this problem, almost all fitness facilitiesRead more

At WHF we truly believe prevention is better than cure. Whenever possible, we prefer to fix minor problems before they blow up into major ones. There are always plenty of stories about people who feel great one day, and the next day injure themselves or become sick seemingly overnight. But the idea that people areRead more

When you train at Wrightstown Health and Fitness, you embark on a journey towards a lifetime of health and fitness. Your membership may expire after one year, but your commitment to fitness longevity needs to continue beyond that. Fitness longevity refers to one’s efforts to reach his or her goals not just in the immediateRead more